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Tungsten isotope helps study how to armor future fusion reactors

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team of ORNL researchers working with tungsten to armor the inside of future fusion reactors had some surprising results when looking at the probability of contamination.

Journal: Nuclear Fusion
Funder: DOE's Office of Science (Fusion Energy Sciences)

Sulfur-scavenging bacteria could be key to making common component in plastic

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Ohio State University discovered a new microbial pathway that produces ethylene, providing a potential avenue for biomanufacturing a common component of plastics, adhesives, coolants and other everyday products.

Journal: Science
Funder: DOE's Office of Science; National Cancer Institute and the National Science Foundation

Scientists building 3D-printed nuclear reactor core use HFIR to test novel materials

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

The Transformational Challenge Reactor will use novel materials. Researchers are testing their performance in a reactor core by irradiating them in the High Flux Isotope Reactor.

Scientists create protein models to explore toxic methylmercury formation

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory created a computational model of the proteins responsible for the transformation of mercury to toxic methylmercury, marking a step forward in understanding how the reaction occurs and how mercury cycles through the environment.

Journal: Communications Biology
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Faster, more efficient energy storage could stem from holistic study of layered materials

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory developed a novel, integrated approach to track energy-transporting ions within an ultra-thin material, which could unlock its energy storage potential leading toward faster charging, longer lasting devices.

Funder: Department of Energy's Office of Science

Novel 3D-printed device demonstrates enhanced capture of carbon dioxide emissions

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have designed and additively manufactured a first-of-its-kind aluminum device that enhances the capture of carbon dioxide emitted from fossil fuel plants and other industrial processes.

Journal: AIChE Journal
Funder: DOE/Office of Fossil Energy

AI software enables real-time 3D printing quality assessment

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have developed artificial intelligence software for powder bed 3D printers that assesses the quality of parts in real time, without the need for expensive characterization equipment.

Journal: Additive Manufacturing
Funder: U.S. Department of Energy: Office of Nuclear Energy; and Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's Advanced Manufacturing Office

CASL wraps up 10 years of solving nuclear problems -- and hands toolbox to industry

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

As the Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors -- DOE's first Energy Innovation Hub -- ends and transitions to VERA Users Group, its work will have a long-ranging impact on the nuclear industry.

Poison control: Chasing the antidote

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A fast-acting antidote to mitigate the effects of organophosphate poisoning requires a reactivator that can effectively and efficiently cross the blood-brain barrier, bind loosely to the enzyme, chemically snatch the poison and then leave quickly. Oak Ridge National Laboratory is using neutron diffraction data towards improving a novel reactivator design.

Horizon31 startup licenses ORNL global communication system for drones

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Horizon31, LLC, of Knoxville, Tenn., has exclusively licensed a novel communication system that allows users to reliably operate unmanned vehicles such as drones from anywhere in the world using only an internet connection. The technology, developed by the startup's founders at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory will enable commercial, government and consumer drone use at scale.

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